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I remember a baby-themed episode of E.R. in which a doctor is labor. It turns out that she has cancer. She suspended her chemotherapy so that she could carry the baby to term. Some of the other medical personnel act shocked over it. She tells them that she only has a few months to live, but her baby has its whole life ahead of it. It is a very powerful, very touching moment, after she gives birth and holds her baby. However, as another aspect of the episode, they have two lesbians having a baby that was fathered by a homosexual man. I thought to myself about how they had to take an otherwise beautiful aspect of the show and ruin it.

There have been many beautiful and touching moments on that show that have been marred by the percieved need to insert the PC aspect of (insert topic here).

The propensity of the writers to kill off small children, be they the unborn, infants, youngsters, is appalling.

remember a baby-themed episode of E.R. in which a doctor is labor. It turns out that she has cancer. She suspended her chemotherapy so that she could carry the baby to term.

Ironically, they did the reverse a couple of weeks ago and the staff (at least Corday and Malique) were just as shocked. This particular patient had a super-aggressive abdominal cancer. At first she was advised that she was probably going to die, but would have a very rough course either way. Then, when they got into surgery to do a biopsy, Corday finds that the stuff has spread all over the woman's innards and is the worst type of this particular kind of cancer. If she refuses treatment, she will be able to have the child and die two or three months later. If she has the abortion, she'll be dead almost as soon. Corday explains this to the Husband while the wife is still under, because he can reverse her decision. He refuses. Corday was staring at him with this mix of horror and "I could slap the crap right out of you" that came through very well even though her eyes were the only thing we could see.